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HOTEL LOBBY

 Millennium Seoul Hilton’s Chinese restaurant Taipan is featuring ginseng in October.Featured dishes include Cantonese roast duck served with honey glazed fresh ginseng; stir-fried live lobster and fresh ginseng with garlic and red chili; and fried rice with fresh ginseng and black chicken wrapped in lotus leaf.Ginseng’s health benefits include boosting the immune system and lowering blood sugar. A dish will start from 28,000 won, including taxes and service charge. For more information and reservations, call (02) 317-3237.  W Seoul-Walkerhill will open its two restaurants for open-bar happy hour promotion. At Namu, the Japanese restaurant, a two-hour open bar will offer five Japanese drinks for 80,000 won per person every Friday evening. If two hours are too short, guests can add 40,000 won for one additional hour. For more information and reservations, call (02) 2022-0222.Woobar, the hotel’s stylish bar, offers unlimited wine, champagne and beer every evening for three hours at 89,000 won. If you want beer only, it will be 49,000 won, while wine and

Oct 15, 2015By Kim Se-jeong
HOTEL LOBBY
Travel & Food

Hotels offer autumn packages

Park Hyatt Busan offers a spa package until Oct 31. / Courtesy of Park Hyatt BusanBy Kim Se-jeong This month, couples who need a short vacation have a few autumn hotel packages to choose from.Renaissance Seoul Hotel is offering three seasonal packages until Nov. 30 ― All of the packages include access to the indoor swimming pool, recreation center and sauna for two guests.The “Sweet Couple” package includes a one-night stay in a Deluxe room and free Wi-Fi service at 150,000 won, excluding taxes and service charges.The “Sweet Ladies” package includes a one-night stay in a Deluxe room, breakfast for two at the buffet restaurant Café Elysee, a nail care voucher worth 50,000 won for two people and two beauty items made by TREEANNSEA, a local organic cosmetics manufacturer. The package costs 180,000 won.The “Sweet Family” package includes a one-night stay in a Deluxe room, breakfast for two at Café Elysee (two children under age six also eat for free) and room service for pizza, buffalo wings and soft drinks. The package also inc

Oct 15, 2015By Kim Se-jeong
Hotels offer autumn packages
Travel & Food

Citadines unfolds unique experience

A bedroom in one-bedroom Executive / Courtesy of Citadines Haeundae BusanKevin Goh, managing director for North Asia at The  Ascott LimitedBy Kim Se-jeongBUSAN — Two months into its opening, Citadines Haeundae Busan is a pleasant surprise to its managers.During the first two months, the property attracted more long-term guests who came to Busan for work. In the first weekend of October, the property had a room occupancy of more than 95 percent.“We hope to attract more guests,” Kevin Goh, the managing director for North Asia at The Ascott Limited, the Singapore-based company that owns the Citadines brand, said during an interview on Tuesday. His company also manages Somerset Palace Seoul.Goh visited the property for its official opening on Tuesday and attributed Citadines’ success to his guests. The Ascott Limited was motivated to open a property in Busan in part by the growing number of requests from existing guests.The 468-room Citadines Haeundae, which opened on Aug. 14, caters to both short- and long-term guests in Korea’s second l

Oct 15, 2015By Kim Se-jeong
Citadines unfolds unique experience
South Korea

Korean-American gains attention for challenging Trump

By Kim Se-jeongJoseph ChoeA Korean-American student is making headlines here after confronting Donald Trump, the U.S. Republican presidential front-runner, Monday, over the presence of the U.S. military in Korea.Joseph Choe, 20, a Harvard College student, also put Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the spot in April with a question about women who were forced to be sex slaves during World War II.During a campaign speech in New Hampshire, Trump said Korea receives free military protection from 28,500 American servicemen.“I just want to get the facts straight,” Choe said during a question and answer session following the speech.Trump interrupted him to ask if he was from Korea.“I am not. I was born in Texas and raised in Colorado,” Choe said. “No matter where I am from, I would like to get the facts straight. And I want to tell you that that is not true. South Korea paid $861 million.”Then Trump cut him off and said, “It is peanuts compared to what it’s costing. It’s peanuts. They are a very wealthy country. We are defending Germ

Oct 14, 2015By Kim Se-jeong
Korean-American gains attention for challenging Trump
South Korea

Telemarketers top list of jobs ranking with highest level of stress

By Kim Se-jeongMore people in the services sector suffer from job stress, with some in need of professional help.According to a survey by the Korea Employment Information Service (KEIS), Wednesday, telemarketing topped the list of jobs that bring on stress.Stress is a side-effect of many jobs, but is particularly high in services where workers deal with customers directly. Telemarketers call people trying to sell them products or services.The survey was conducted on 25,550 people working in 730 different jobs last year. The respondents were asked about whether their jobs require them to have contact with many people, whether such meetings were critical to their performance and whether they often come across people who express anger or frustration with them.“In the case of telemarketers, their calls for sales often end up making people on the other end of the line angry,” chief researcher Park Sang-hyun at KEIS said. “People curse at telemarketers. Some telemarketers said that people even called them on their cell phones to harass them after the first call.”Hot

Oct 14, 2015By Kim Se-jeong
Telemarketers top list of jobs ranking with highest level of stress
South Korea

Climate change to change menus on table

By Kim Se-jeong The Earth is getting warmer. Scientists say if nothing is done to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the temperature will increase by 4.7 degrees Celsius or more by 2100. The increase for the Korean Peninsula is expected to be 5.7 degrees, meaning the average temperature of the peninsula will be that of Jeju Island now.Besides people feeling the heat, this will affect Koreans’ dining tables, according to the Rural Development Administration (RDA) and the National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (NFRDI), both publicly-funded research centers.“Agriculture is directly affected by climate change,” researcher Moon Kyung-hwan at the RDA said. “The government needs to set up a realistic policy to secure a food supply for the people.”Researchers say that the food people will eat in 2100 will be vastly different from what we eat today, particularly locally grown food.A lot of locally grown fruits and vegetables will decline in production. Apples will be the hardest-hit among them. The warm temperature will push the farmland suitabl

Oct 13, 2015By Kim Se-jeong
Climate change to change menus on table
  • Expected food change from global warming
South Korea

Museum on Japanese colonization to open next year

By Kim Se-jeongKorean and Japanese civic groups are seeking to buy a building to set up a museum showing the truth about Japan’s colonization of Korea (1910-1945).The Center for Historical Truth and Justice, a civic group dedicated to revealing Korea’s modern history, said Sunday that it has launched a project to establish the museum with a scheduled opening in August next year.The project is aimed at displaying various materials related to the colonial era, such as records of the Japanese invasion of Korea, exploitation and forced labor. About 30,000 items have been already donated, according to the center.“It will also show Korean and Japanese civic groups roles regarding historical issues and promote exchanges in East Asia,” a member of the center said.  A coalition of some 30 civic groups in Japan will launch a project next month to collect materials to be donated to the museum and raise funds.“Of many Korean museums dealing with specific themes or specific eras, none is dedicated to the period when Korea was under Japanese rule,” the memb

Oct 11, 2015By Kim Se-jeong
South Korea

Commercial airline pilots move to China for higher pay

By Kim Se-jeong Pilots at Korean commercial airline companies are quitting and moving to Chinese airlines at an alarmingly fast pace for higher pay and better working conditions.According to data submitted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport to Rep. Byun Jae-ill of the New Politics Alliance for Democracy during a National Assembly audit, Thursday, a total of 217 Korean pilots left their jobs at Korean carriers between January and September.In September alone, 42 quit. Among the 42, 19 were employees of Asiana Airlines, followed by 18 from Korean Air, the nation’s two flagship carriers, and five from low-budget carriers.For Korean Air, the exodus worsened after the “nut rage” case last December where former executive Heather Cho used abusive language and violence against crewmembers on a plane bound from New York to Incheon. The number of pilots who left Korean Air between January and September this year was 79.“Among them, almost 40 went to Chinese airlines,” a member of the Korean Air Pilots Union, who identified himself only by h

Oct 8, 2015By Kim Se-jeong
Travel & Food

Jeju hotels offer autumn pool packages

Kensington Jeju Hotel’s roof-top pool Skyfinity / Courtesy of Kengsington Jeju HotelBy Kim Se-jeong Feel like watching a movie while in the water?If so, The Shilla Jeju’s “Floating Cinema” event, which runs from Oct. 17 till Nov. 30, just might be your thing.At the event, the hotel will warm the pool water and provide guests with a floating pillow and a warm sunbed on which they can lie down while watching a movie.Two carefully selected movies will be screened each night from 6 p.m. to midnight on a 5.4-meter-wide and 3-meter-high LCD TV screen.Some of the films that will be shown in October are “Begin Again,” a 2013 American musical comedy drama directed by John Carney, and “Sunshine on Leith,” a 2013 British musical film directed by Dexter Fletcher. The hotel said it also welcomes recommendations from guests.Guests can enjoy the hotel’s floating cinema by booking a “Floating Cinema” package, which includes a one-night stay in a standard room, breakfast for two and a free floating pillow and snack during the movi

Oct 8, 2015By Kim Se-jeong
Jeju hotels offer autumn pool packages
Travel & Food

Four Seasons Hotel opens in Seoul

Four Seasons Hotel Seoul with 317 rooms opened early this month. / Courtesy of Four Seasons Hotel SeoulBy Kim Se-jeong Four Seasons Hotel Seoul finally opened early this month and it’s already the talk of the town.“Four Seasons shares a common goal based on the Golden Rule and stays in tune with our customers’ preferences to quickly respond to their needs and provide personal, individualized service. This is what defines Four Seasons experience and service. I believe the driving force of our achievements is the employees and their outstanding teamwork and dedication to provide high quality service and experiences what guests are looking for,” the hotel’s general manager Lubosh Barta said.A glimpse into the brand new hotel gives the impression that it will impress local and foreign travelers. Rooms Each of the hotel’s 317 rooms has a bed with a customizable mattress topper, a flat-screen LCD television with wired connectivity and on-demand options, an espresso maker, in-room a safe, an ironing board and iron, free Wi-Fi, a hair dryer,

Oct 8, 2015By Kim Se-jeong
Four Seasons Hotel opens in Seoul
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